I finally caved and bought a Dual Shock 3 controller for the Playstation 3 yesterday so I could get in on some Soul Calibur action with my wife, and whoever else happens to come over in the future and would like to play a round or three. After nearly slicing my hand trying to pry the controller out of that awful and flat out dangerous plastic that companies continue to wrap their products in, I saw that the Dual Shock 3 didn’t come with a USB cable for charging the controller. I guess Sony assumes you already own a cable for the device (or maybe a few others for all your other computer products) that they could skimp out on including one. Guess what? I just paid the price of a brand new and since I can go right over to Amazon and buy one for a penny, I know price isn’t a factor.

Second, I went to turn on the controller so we could actually play the game and it wasn’t even charged! Not only does it not come with a cable, but the controller isn’t even charged once you finally get the damn thing out of the package. So I had to find the 2 inch USB cable Sony included with their console and wait a half hour until I could play a little 2 player action in Soul Calibur 4. I don’t care if this sounds like petty bitching, and seriously, can you ever have too many USB cables?